Formula 1 Fans Will Need A Weekend At A Spa To Recover

There has been plenty written about the fallout from Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps and no wonder. What is going on in F1?

I'm not your in depth F1 fan but I do love the sport and I watch every race (even if I'm reading the paper at the same time) from start to finish.

Sadly, the finish isn't the finish anymore and if I wanted to follow a sport that lasts four or five hours, I'd watch baseball or something.

If I hadn't been a sport freak then I wouldn't have logged onto skysports.com two hours after the race to find out everything I'd believed had changed.

Many F1 fans won't even know the result has changed! Hardly the way to hold an audience is it?

I said it in my last article and I'll say it again:

All these penalties with mixed punishments after races are getting BORING!

It's a bit like Manchester United getting a penalty late in every game or a match being decided by an off-side goal or even a legitimate goal being disallowed.

First time it sucks but we accept it. Second time it really sucks and there are a few moans. Third time is just ridiculous.

Many people are talking about conspiracies and I'm not going to get into all of that, but if it's true don't the FIA realise that Lewis Hamilton is more than capable of messing things up on his own?

So what about the race itself?

Well Lewis made another mistake early on with a spin handing the lead to Kimi Raikkonen and it was a mistake that would have cost him the win had he not got lucky with the rain.

I've read about everything on Bleacher Report regarding this weekend and I'm quite surprised at people who say it was a great GP.

Apart from the last 15 minutes, it was boring! I was praying for rain.

How many people had already switched off thinking the race was won and the rain wasn't coming? Quite a few I'd bet.

Yes that is their problem but in reality it is also F1's.

At this time the only thing keeping me watching Formula One is my loyalty to David Coulthard and the sport.

I'm bored of penalties, I'm bored of conspiracies.

I don't care if the race is boring. I just want a winner, fair and square as he crosses the finish line!

Look at Felipe Massa above.

That's what it means to win a F1 race these days. Almost embarrassing!